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1. The Effects of Payments for Environmental Services on Peri-Urban Land Change in Mexico City's Conservation Zone

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2022
   Julia C. Bausch, Elizabeth Tellman, Alison Acosta-Oakes, Amy Lerner, Enrique Castelán-Crespo, and Bertha Hernández-Aguilar

   In many cities of the developing world, informal settlements are a key place for people with low incomes to access housing. Informal urbanization drives land-use change at the urban periphery:...

2. The Evolution of a Land Trust

   Placing Social Transformation at the Center of the Conservation Effort
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Setembro 2021
   Fernando Lloveras San Miguel

   This narrative examines the evolution of a land trust, Para la Naturaleza (PLN) in Puerto Rico, as it navigated a vast array of challenges. These challenges led Para la Naturaleza to transform itself...

3. Exploring the Use of Land Value Capture Instruments for Green Resilient Infrastructure Benefits

   A Framework Applied in Cali, Colombia
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Julho 2019
   Stelios Grafakos, Alexandra Tsatsou, Luca D'Acci, James Kostaras, Adriana Patricia López Valencia, Nohemi Ramirez Aranda, and Barbara Summers

   Building resilient infrastructure is one of the major challenges cities face due to urbanization rates and climate change. Financing these investments is an additional challenge particularly for...

4. Políticas de Suelo, Derecho Urbanístico y Cambio Climático

   Instrumentos Urbanísticos-Tributarios como Medidas para Enfrentar al Cambio Climático
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Março 2019
   Safira De La Sala, Melinda Maldonado, and Rachelle Alterman

   El objetivo de esta investigación es identificar ejemplos de instrumentos de financiamiento basados en el uso del suelo (LBFT, por sus siglas en inglés) que estén siendo...

5. Integrating Green Infrastructure Practices into Ongoing Expansion and Management of the Chilean Electrical Transmission Network

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2018
   Daniela Martínez Gutiérrez

   The energy revolution that Chile is experiencing due to the massive incorporation of variable renewable energy to its energy matrix creates an environmental paradox. The greener our energy is getting...

6. Green Infrastructure in Patagonia

   Sharing the Recent Chilean Land Conservation Experience with the European Conservation Community
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2018
   Tilmann Disselhoff and Tom Kirschey

   This paper attempts to capture some of the early lessons from the creation of a new National Park Network in Chilean Patagonia. We argue that the National Park Network of Patagonia constitutes green...

7. Strengthening Urban Resilience through Nature

   The potential of ecosystem-based measures for reduction of landslide risk in Rio de Janeiro
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2018
   Wofram Lange, Simone Sandholz, and Udo Nehren

   Ecosystem-based measures have a high potential to replace or build on engineered solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), not only in rural but also in urban...

8. Relocalizaciones Urbanas y Riesgos Ambientales

   Un análisis de los casos de Magaldi y Villa 26 en la cuenca Matanza Riachuelo (Argentina)
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 2017
   Daniel Ryan and Cecilia Larivera, with collaboration from Andrés Nápoli

   Este trabajo explora la problemática de la relocalización por riesgos ambientales en el contexto de la cuenca Matanza Riachuelo, una de las áreas urbanas más contaminadas...

9. The Global Reach of Land Trust Organizations

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Fevereiro 2015
   Peter Stein

   This paper is a summary of the author’s reflections gained from the many interactions he has had over the past 18 months with land trust practitioners, academics and government agency leaders on...

10. Desarrollo urbano orientado a buses rápidos

    Documentos de Trabalho
    Junho 2014
    Daniel A. Rodríguez

    El desarrollo urbano orientado al transporte masivo describe un entorno urbano con alta densidad poblacional, mezcla de usos de suelo (residencial, comercial y de oficina) y un ambiente peatonal...